Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 368 The Scar on the Back of the Beautiful Snake Princess

"It seems to be all right." After all the people in the venue left, Luffy looked around, let go of his hands and feet and jumped back to the arena.
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And Sonia and Marigold also returned to their original appearance, knelt there nervously and apologized to the people above, "I'm sorry, my lord, we not only lost but were saved by the enemy."
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And Luffy picked up the stone statue of Margaret and looked at the Serpent on it seriously, "Are you going to fight with me next?"
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She Ji was startled, and after quietly looking at his serious face for a while, she sighed and shook her head, "Forget it, that's it. I'm not in that mood."
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"That's it." After Luffy nodded, he began to check whether the stone statue of Margaret was damaged, and after confirming that there was no problem, he said loudly: "Okay, quickly turn these stone statues into stones." Let's get back to normal."
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The unexpected words made the three sisters stare in amazement, and looked at Luffy in disbelief, and even couldn't believe that he wanted to save that single petrified person from beginning to end.
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"If it's you, you should be able to do it??!" Luffy begged anxiously: "They just helped me say a few words, they didn't do anything bad! Please!"
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Snake Ji pursed her lips and stared at him, and after a few seconds she calmly said, "Indeed, I can unlock those petrifications at will. But, you said you wanted to go somewhere by boat?"
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The pure Luffy didn't understand the meaning behind Snake Princess's words, nodded and said honestly: "Yes, I made an appointment with my friends."

"Really. I can only grant you one wish, undo their petrification, or send you away from this island, you can only choose one and give up the other." After Snake Ji finished speaking almost ruthlessly, The expression on his face showed a trace of cruelty, he squinted his eyes slightly and waited for the man to reveal his true nature, "I will not be deceived, show your true nature, man!" '
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Sonia and Marigold, who also didn't believe that this man's nature was so kind, also showed similar expressions, looking back and waiting for Luffy's next moment.
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"She Ji, you are so ruthless..." Granny Niu in the audience frowned at their actions, and at the same time sweated for the man she admired quite a lot.
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However, as if he only heard the first half of the sentence, Luffy knelt down without any hesitation, and said happily, "Really? Thank you so much, that means you will save them, right?!"
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The answer without a trace of hesitation was completely beyond the expectations of the three Snake Girl sisters. All three of them were full of disbelief and shock.
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"Thank you so much.", full of joy that only the savior can be saved, Luffy kowtowed to the Snake Girl above without any hesitation.
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Sonia and Marigold, who had completely changed their views on this man, looked at the older sister above at a loss, waiting for her recovery.
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"!!!!!!", Snake Ji's pursed lips turned pale, her fists were clenched but still trembling slightly, after a long time, she calmed down a little, stood up and walked slowly, low Drooping bangs covered her complicated eyes.
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"Without a trace of hesitation." Granny Niu was also shocked, "A man with such a powerful and domineering spirit is willing to bow his head in order to save his benefactor. If he..."
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Luffy, who kept his head down, felt the sound of high heels passing by him, and then raised his head to look at the person who had already passed him, with a happy smile on his face.
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Snake stood still in front of Margaret, turned her head slightly to see the bright smile on Luffy's face, then stretched out her right hand forward, and blew softly, "Wake up."
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After the small pink heart-shaped wind passed Margaret, it blew towards Sweet Pea and Yaffi Andoran in the corridor. In an instant, the petrified three people immediately returned to their original appearance, but their faces were dazed. know what's going on.
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"It's really back to its original appearance~~", Luffy jumped up excitedly, and after turning around Margaret a few times, he jumped to the corridor to see Sweet Pea and Yafei Andoran who were walking up , After confirming that the three of them are all fine, I said with complete confidence: "Great~~ You suddenly petrified, I don't know what to do~~~"
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"Petrochemical??", Margaret and the three looked at each other, expressing that they had no idea what Lu Fei was talking about, but the three of them were amazed at the empty auditorium.
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And Snake Ji just looked at Lu Fei's happy smiling face silently, then turned and left.
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Luffy, who found her leaving, immediately waved to her, smiled gratefully and said, "Hey, thank you~~~"
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"Master Snake Princess..." The three of Margaret, who knew that they had committed a serious crime, rushed forward and knelt there anxiously.
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She Ji stopped walking, and then continued to walk forward without turning her head. Words without emotion came over, "Please guard the country well from now on."
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Sonia and Marigold turned around and smiled at the bewildered ones, then followed in the footsteps of their sister.
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"Yes!", knowing that they had been forgiven, the three of them answered loudly immediately, and then looked around in confusion.
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Not long after, the three of Margaret left here, but Luffy was specially entertained to go to Nine Snake City.

In Serpentine's bedroom, Luffy was sitting bored in front of the big bed with the curtain drawn down, while Sonia and Marigold sat on either side of him.
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"What are you going to do?" Luffy, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, swayed from side to side boredly, then thought of something and asked happily: "Do you want to invite me to dinner after the battle? If so, I am very happy~~I Say, what is your famous dish? It really is meat, right?!"
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Sonia didn't answer the question, but turned her head and smiled and said, "Thank you so much just now, thank you."
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"No, thank you and I can't eat~"
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Marigold also said with a little fear: "If the things on the back are seen, we can no longer stay in this country."
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At this time, a faint voice came from inside the bed curtain, "Come in."
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"Come in?".Luffy tilted his head strangely.
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"Come inside the curtain, man."
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"Inside the bed curtain? Could it be food???" Thinking of the food, Luffy jumped up excitedly, then lifted the bed curtain with his paw, and then asked strangely the snake who had taken off his shirt and revealed a beautiful figure inside. Ji, "What's the matter with you? Why are you naked?"
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"What a rude reaction." The peerless beauty Snake Ji still couldn't see a little bit of infatuation from the man's face, and after sighing, she handed the clothes to the big flower snake queen behind her.Hua Snake automatically turned around so that Snake Girl could turn her back to Luffy.
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Reaching out her hand to pull the black hair covering her snow-white back, Snake Ji struggled for several seconds before mustering up the courage to say a few words, "You said...you've seen this...imprint..."
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"?" Luffy looked suspiciously at her who didn't push back her black hair.
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"This... mark... where did you see it? Where is it? Do you know its meaning?" Snake Ji's right hand trembled slightly, and then she pushed her black hair away, revealing the red mark on her back .There is a red circle in the middle of the imprint, a small red inverted triangle below it, and three small red regular triangles above it.
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"Hmm..." Luffy studied the pattern carefully with his chin propped up.
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"Where is it? This is not something that can be seen."
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"Sure enough, there are still some differences from what I know." Luffy concluded, and then said with a smile: "Among my friends, there is a murloc named Xiaoba."
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"Murloc?" Snake Ji let go of her long hair and looked back at him.
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"Well, he has a similar mark on his forehead. I made a mistake. I haven't seen this mark."
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"If you don't know, tell him." An old female voice sounded from this room, and immediately, Granny Niu appeared in Snake Girl's bedroom without anyone noticing.
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She Ji was startled, she gritted her teeth and looked at her, "Where did you come from again?!"
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"Be honest, Snake Girl. You have seen how broad-minded this man is." Granny Niu smiled at her with encouragement, "It's okay, Anxing will tell you everything."
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She Ji clenched her teeth, then looked away as if giving up.The big snake behind her thoughtfully helped her put on the clothes.
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Granny Niu walked over with a snake cane, and said to Luffy lightly, "You are the pirate Monkey-D-Luffy, am I right?"
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"Well, it was me, but why did you know?" Luffy looked at the old woman in surprise, and found that she was the old man who kicked him down.
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"You've made the world a mess, and you still act like you don't care." Granny Niu was a little helpless, and the snake crutch in her hand suddenly circled back into a circle, and she bit a newspaper in her mouth and handed it to her.
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Granny Niu took the stack of thick newspapers, and then patted them vigorously, "Look at this news! A few days ago, on the Chambord Islands at the foot of the center, they committed a heinous crime by beating the flying dragons He is the culprit."
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"Tianlong people?!", hearing this word that the world dare not disobey, the three Snake Girl sisters all involuntarily widened their eyes, looking at the thin and small boy in shock.
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"After such a catastrophe, he was able to miraculously escape from the hands of the highest authority of the center. It is really hard to imagine that he was able to come to such a remote place in just three days after the incident happened. untie."
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"It's been said that I was shot flying, I don't even know where this is." After Lu Fei finished laughing with his arms akimbo, he clenched his fists angrily and said, "And, about the Tianlong people? I don't regret it at all! That bastard, do you know what he did to my friend?!"
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"That is to say..." Snake Ji looked nervously at the young man in front of her, and asked anxiously, "Did you really hit the Tianlongren?"
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"Yeah." Luffy nodded.
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"In this world... there are still such idiots..." Snake Ji lowered her head tremblingly, her hands unconsciously grasped the bed sheet under her hands, her voice was choked with sobs, tears dripping uncontrollably Luo, "Despite the danger of life, challenge the sky, a man like him..."
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"Him?" Luffy looked suspiciously at Snake who was sobbing there.
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Snake Ji covered her face and cried for a while before she calmed down a little, stretched out her hand to tighten her clothes, and said in a low voice: "I will tell you everything, including the meaning of your murloc friend's forehead mark.
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"Xiao Ba's mark?"
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"This is..." Snake Ji put her trembling right hand on her shoulder, lowered her head and said, "The hoof of the flying dragon, this is the emblem of the Tianlong people."
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Luffy looked at her in astonishment, and didn't figure out what it meant.
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"This is the proof of [inferior human beings] imprinted on the people raised by the nobles of the world, which cannot be eliminated in their lifetime. Our three sisters... used to..." Snake Ji stretched out her hand and tightly grasped the arm of the other hand , struggled to personally uncover the scars of his past, "I am a slave to the nobles of the world..."
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"Slave?!", the expression on Lu Fei's face can no longer be described as shock, after all, the person in front of him has been superior to others since his appearance, and his haughty attitude has not changed much.
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As if recalling the painful life before, Sonia and Marigold's faces were full of pain and despair.
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Saying the hardest thing to say will only be the most difficult thing to say. Snake Ji's next narration became a little calmer, as calm as a pool of stagnant water, as if she was telling someone else's story, "When I was 12 years old, our three sisters joined the The Nine Snake Pirates. However, on the Nine Snake pirate ship, the three of us were abducted by human traffickers and then sold. Since then, it has been a terrible past that I don’t want to recall. For the first time in my life, I saw To me, men are just a bunch of horrible creatures."
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Unable to bear the demonic faces of the group of people in memory anymore, Sonia covered her head in tears and screamed out in pain, "Ah!!!"
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"Sister Sonia, calm down!!" Marigold on the side immediately grabbed her worriedly, lest she would do anything stupid when she was sad.
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Seeing this, Lu Fei immediately said nervously to Snake Girl: "That's enough, I got it!! Don't force it, it doesn't matter if you don't say it!!"
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However, Snake Girl didn’t seem to hear it, she still whispered word by word: “It’s really a very hopeless past, there is no hope, we only think about something to die. But one night four years later , an incident that shocked the world government happened. No one dares to fight against the Tianlong people. This is the iron rule of the world.
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But there was a man who climbed onto the red earth continent with his bare hands, and went alone to the holy land [Marie Gioia] where the Celestial Dragons lived.He was the adventurer who later led the Murloc Pirates—Fisher Tiger.In order to liberate the slave town where the murlocs were abused, he tried his best to turn the world upside down.
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He treated slaves equally and freed slaves of all races.We also desperately escaped.His kindness to us is immeasurable.Although Tiger liberated a large number of murlocs to the sea, the brand of being a slave would not disappear.Tiger, who is against the world government, formed the Sun Pirates with those people and set off for the open sea.As if to remove the curse, he turned the Draco crest branded on everyone's bodies into the sun's logo.You think the brand on my body looks familiar, maybe it's because it resembles the logo of the Sun Pirates. "
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Luffy nodded and pointed to his forehead, "Yes, the one on Hachi's forehead is indeed in the shape of the sun. Was he also a slave before?",.
"It may not necessarily be the case..." Sonia lay tired on the ground as if she had experienced a big battle.
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Marigold replied: "It was branded to make it difficult for people to distinguish whether they were slaves or not. However, he was once a member of the Sun Pirates, so there is nothing wrong with that."
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"To add, Fisher Tiger is dead." Granny Niu said from the side: "The Murloc Pirates seem to have split into several groups."
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"Unexpectedly, when we were slaves, we were forced to eat [Sweet Fruit] and Snake Fruit] for fun. Relying on these powers, we were able to deceive the country and keep this secret. If you didn't stop it at that time If Sonia’s back is broken, we won’t be able to stay on this island.” The tears that finally stopped dripped again, and she hugged her Snake tightly and cried sadly: “I don’t want anyone to know about our In the past, even if we wanted to deceive the whole country!! We wouldn’t show any flaws, and we didn’t want to be dominated by others!! I’m really afraid to open up to others, I’m so afraid that I can’t be myself..."
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Luffy looked at the beautiful woman crying like a child in surprise, and then just fell silent.
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Grandma Niu looked at the sad Snake Girl, and suddenly jumped onto her snake crutch, and said with a smile, "However, it's been a long time since I've seen you show your feelings like this. In the past few years, I thought Snake Master Ji has already turned into a block of ice."
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She Ji looked up at her, then wiped away her tears, stood up and pointed at her nose and shouted: "Shut up! You traitor who abandoned the country."
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"The one who should shut up is you!!" Grandma Niu shouted back not to be outdone, pointing at her and said, "Although you escaped from the palm of the Tianlong people, you three sad little girls who live on the street don't know how When you returned to the island. Do you still remember who brought you back?! Didn’t it all depend on me living overseas?!”
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Facing her accusation, Snake Ji just turned her back to her, and said mockingly, "Hmph~~ Don't show off your little kindness,"
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Granny Niu was furious when she heard this, but Sonia and Marigold grabbed her with each hand, but even so, the gray-haired old woman roared vigorously: "What are you talking about!!! I have always protected you like a mother! You actually said a small favor!!!!"
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"Yes..." The helpless Sonia and Marigold nodded in agreement, carefully holding her with their hands that were bigger than Grandma Niu.
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Snake Girl didn't care about the yelling there, stepped forward a few steps and turned her back to Luffy, clenched one hand into a fist and the other tightly grasped her clothes, asked in a low voice, "Would you... look down on me?" ...we who were slaves..."
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"Huh?" Luffy looked at her strangely, but found that she was shaking slightly and choked up from time to time.She knew that if she didn't say anything resembling comfort, she would cry again.Sighing, Lu Fei said loudly: "What are you talking about, I already said that I hate Celestial Dragons."

(End of this chapter)